[camerjeff]

As I am Retiring, and my last day of work will be next Friday, I renewed my Interest in purchasing an odd Luxury Fiat Model that was never sold in North America. A Fiat 130 Coupe. I have been looking on and off for about 10 years for a nice example. I have attempted to purchase a couple that were already in the US, but either being outbid on the last one on BAT a couple of years ago, and just missing one that sold a day before I contacted the seller last year.
So I decided to start looking in Europe for a nice example that had the options I wanted, 5-speed manual transmission, and the bright orange velour interior were musts. A/C was preferred but not a must and the exterior color was flexible. Also I looking for one with under 60k miles.
Over thanksgiving weekend this example came up for auction on a French Site in a paint color I had never seen before and I placed bids up to my limit taking auction fees, and inport/export costs & shipping costs into consideration. In the end I was outbid, and started looking at other cars. Well I was surprised early last week when the auction house contacted me because the high bidder did not pay for the car, and the second high bidder passed on the opportunity to buy it. So it was offered to me. And I jumped on it. I just got word that the shipping company is scheduled to pick it up early next week.
So I am a bit exited to own it, and I have sense learned the car has a bit of history attached to it, that I was unaware of because I can't read or Speak French. So what do you all think? If anyone is interested on why an American born and raised in the Midwest would want an obscure European Luxury car from the 1970's I will post the back story.